{"id":1311678,"date":"2019-06-21T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/denver-nuggets-pick-up-bol-bol-in-2nd-round-trade-with-heat\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:20:00","slug":"denver-nuggets-pick-up-bol-bol-in-2nd-round-trade-with-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/denver-nuggets-pick-up-bol-bol-in-2nd-round-trade-with-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets pick up Bol Bol in 2nd round trade with Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oregon’s Bol Bol smiles before the NBA basketball draft Thursday, June 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo\/Julio Cortez)<\/strong>
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DENVER \u2014 Bol Bol stands 7-foot-2 with a 7-7 wingspan.<\/p>\n

That grudge? Even wider.<\/p>\n

The Oregon center\u2019s wait to hear his name called lasted longer than he anticipated. That\u2019s OK \u2014 simply more fuel.<\/p>\n

Denver acquired the draft rights to Bol at No. 44 from the Miami Heat on Thursday night in exchange for a future second-round pick and cash considerations.<\/p>\n

By Bol\u2019s calculation, he figured he\u2019d go in the middle \u2014 possibly toward the end \u2014 of the first round even with a foot injury. His drop into the middle of the second round left him frustrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest takeaway, I honestly don\u2019t know,\u201d said Bol, who spent the entire first round in the green room.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for his free fall may have something to do with this: Bol was limited to nine games with Oregon last season due to a stress fracture in his left foot. Still, the 19-year-old native of Khartoum, Sudan, averaged 21 points, 9.6 rebounds and 2.7 blocks.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy foot is 100 percent healed,\u201d Bol said. \u201cI just recently started to get back on the court about a month ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the Nuggets didn\u2019t have a pick in the draft, they tried to enter into the draft at various points throughout the evening. Each time, the price was too steep. But Bol was a player they couldn\u2019t pass up. He\u2019s the son of the late Manute Bol, who played 10 seasons for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers and the Heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not concerned as to why he fell. We feel very fortunate that he fell,\u201d Nuggets president of basketball operations Tim Connelly said. \u201cWe were fortunate to add another young piece, a guy that we thought pretty highly of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bol figures to form quite a tandem in the middle with Nuggets All-Star Nikola Jokic.<\/p>\n

Funny, Bol actually studied Jokic\u2019s game to become a better passing big man.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a very great player,\u201d Bol said. \u201cThe Nuggets were a very great team last season. Very excited to be a part of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are coming off a 54-28 season in which they earned the No. 2 seed in the West. They made it to the conference semifinals before losing to Portland in Game 7. Denver has a young nucleus that includes Michael Porter Jr., the No. 14 selection last June who sat out the 2018-19 season. Porter was considered a top-five selection before a back injury limited him to three games at Missouri in 2017-18. The 6-foot-10 Porter slid to the Nuggets, who felt his talent was work the risk. A year ago, Porter underwent a second back surgery that sidelined him again.<\/p>\n

He is making big strides and expected to play in the Sumer League next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cFantastic,\u201d Connelly said when asked how Porter\u2019s progressing. \u201cWe want to temper expectations but he looks healthier than he\u2019s been in a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter\u2019s rebound from his back injury is a reason why the Nuggets felt so confident in taking a gamble on Bol.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt made us more comfortable,\u201d Connelly said. \u201cWhen you get a guy with the tools like Bol Bol, it\u2019s hard not to be excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Oregon’s Bol Bol smiles before the NBA basketball draft Thursday, June 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo\/Julio Cortez)AP | AP DENVER \u2014 Bol Bol stands 7-foot-2 with a 7-7 wingspan. That grudge? Even wider. The Oregon center\u2019s wait to hear his name called lasted longer than he anticipated. That\u2019s OK \u2014 simply more fuel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 12:17:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}